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by mellery451 13y ago
For many of us, it comes down to -- as Dan Pink describes: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. Very few companies are good at enabling even ONE of these, let alone all three. Startups are among the worst for fostering this kind of motivation.
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by mellery451 13y ago
Thank you for shining a light on this madness. I've had the same experiences here in SV and these "extreme hiring" practices don't seem sustainable to me. I've been lately thinking that perhaps we'd be better o
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by mellery451 13y ago
not many other fields of work where that analog exists, so I call BS. What's the personalized test given to CPAs? Sales? Marketers? You ask about past experience, accomplishments, etc..but rarely put them under the gun to produce on th
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by mellery451 14y ago
Thanks for writing this. Your post conveys my own take on this particular tech trend/fascination. I love to collaborate - at the whiteboard or during design review. When it's time to code, however, I'd much prefer to be left to my own keybo
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The "Dirty Little Secret" of Age Discrimination(pbs.org)
2 points by mellery451 14y ago|0 comments
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by mellery451 14y ago
it might have also been worthwhile to mention that the stack array declaration: int32_t result[my_array_size]; relies on C99 support, which is not necessarily ubiquitous (especially in embedded device work). At the very least, many
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by mellery451 14y ago
I've had this very thing happen to me. I was surprised when it happened as it was a first for me. That said, I think it's becoming more commonplace, particular in small to medium size companies who are very sensitive to wasting their own de
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Old Techies Never Die(baycitizen.org)
2 points by mellery451 15y ago|1 comments
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by mellery451 15y ago
not with a molton core, unless I misunderstood you...
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by mellery451 15y ago
I would call that selfish (avoiding the kids at home, that is). Sure, there are plenty of days I'd probably just rather hole-up in my cube and code late into night, but I don't because it's more important that I be an engaged parent. It's n
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by mellery451 15y ago
Having just recently been through a drawn-out, multiple interview process recently only to be given a generic rejection email in the end, I really appreciate some of the points the author is making. Particularly that (1) hiring for personal
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by mellery451 15y ago
I mostly agree with you. Perhaps another distinction Uncle Bob could have made is between hidden technical debt (i.e. the mess that PHBs refuse to acknowledge) and acknowledged technical debt. Uncle Bob is talking about the latter, where ev
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by mellery451 15y ago
..but that's just a convenience to allow them to play (mostly) nice with wchar APIs. The BSTR itself could have avoided the trailing NULLs if it never had to worry about being treated as a simple wchar buffer. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericl
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by mellery451 15y ago
I do wish he had mentioned the smart match operator ~~ as it nearly eliminates the confusion between EQ and ==. Of course, if you're dealing with legacy code, then you still need to understand both (or all three), but new coders might be we
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Software Virgins(theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)
1 points by mellery451 15y ago|0 comments
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by mellery451 15y ago
Thanks for sharing. How does the basic functionality compare with, say, http://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/ or http://cpp-netlib.github.com/ ? (the latter looks like it might eventually be incorporated in boost).
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by mellery451 15y ago
I agree with you - the "not invented here" libs don't belong in your repo. I'm always amazed when I walk up to a "mature" base of code and find third party and open source dependencies festering all over the repository. This drives me crazy
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Hiring Demand for Computer Specialists in the Pacific Region(wantedanalytics.com)
2 points by mellery451 16y ago|0 comments
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by mellery451 16y ago
I learned C as my second language after FORTRAN. As it turns out, some of the strangest C code I've ever had to maintain was a system that had been converted from FORTRAN to C using an automated tool.
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The Interview Brainteaser and its Discontents (speakeasy.org)
1 points by mellery451 16y ago|0 comments
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by mellery451 16y ago
Is this "war for talent" local to the Bay Area? I departed the Bay Area ten years ago due to lack of affordable housing, but I'm genuinely curious if a strong developer job market exists anywhere else (I haven't found it where I am now).
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by mellery451 16y ago
Alas, this version does not include the edits and commentary by E.B. White (thus, it came to be known as "Strunk and White"), but it's an interesting archive of the original work.
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by mellery451 16y ago
that code almost looks like it was generated by a wizard ( not the pointy hat/white beard kind) or some other nefarious RAD tool.
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by mellery451 16y ago
> Yes, you read correctly. JavaScript on the server. Weird huh? That’s what I thought. Really? It wasn't so odd back in 1996 when the Netscape web server supported it. To be sure, V8 and node have wildly better performance characteris
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by mellery451 16y ago
Well said. #8 really resonates with me. There has never been a time when I haven't been able to get up to speed on a new stack/toolset within a few days (weeks at most). Why, oh, why can't companies just focus on hiring smart/curious/motiva
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Real Estate Investor Answers "What do you look for in a new employees?"(signonsandiego.com)
1 points by mellery451 16y ago|0 comments
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by mellery451 16y ago
I wish the same thing would work for staplers...
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by mellery451 16y ago
hoo - boy! here we go with another web framework religion throwdown. Well, here's my quick answer: pick the one you think you can get going most quickly with. It's better to just get something started that does something than to spend 6 w
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by mellery451 16y ago
I always thought the suggestion of "grabbing coffee" was just a polite way of brushing me off - ergo no response is really needed. Perhaps I'm just dense, tho'.
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by mellery451 16y ago
similar issues are discussed regularly on the Free Range Kids blog: http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/

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